{"product_id":"masculinities-gender-equality-and-crisis-mathias-ericson-9780367349042","title":"Masculinities, Gender Equality and Crisis Management","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe overarching mission of the rescue services comprises three main areas of responsibility: protection against disasters and accidents; crisis management; and civil defence. This mission covers a long chain of obligations in trying to improve societal prevention capabilities and manage threats, risks, accidents, and disasters concerning generic as well as individual safety. It follows a reactive social chain of threat-risk-crisis-crisis management-care-rehabilitation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors in this book show that the interesting occupational characteristics of these societal duties are their connection to gender and crisis management in a wider sense. Gendered practices, processes, identities, and symbols are analytical lenses that provide a particular understanding and explanatory base that has received far too little attention in the academic literature. This book identifies four major themes in relation to a gendered understanding of the rescue services, and more generally emergency work: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eMasculine heroism \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntersectional understandings of sexuality, class, and race\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eGender and technology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eGender equality and mainstreaming processes \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows how the rescue services constitute a productive ground for contemporary gender studies, including feminist theory, masculinity and sexuality studies. Its critical perspective provides new directions for emergency work and crisis management in a broader sense, and in particular for scholars and practitioners in these areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mathias Ericson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367349043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367349042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mathias Ericson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112881041663,"sku":"9780367349042","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9d96258-2c7f-4943-9d3b-f03665786a3b.jpg?v=1769611571","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/masculinities-gender-equality-and-crisis-mathias-ericson-9780367349042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}